Cosmos is a book by Carl Sagan. Written to accompany Cosmos' original television series, Cosmos A Personal Voyage, its thirteen illustrated chapters correspond to the thirteen episodes. It was first published by Random House in 1980. A sequel was published in 1994.
It spent seventy weeks on the New York Times bestseller list to become the best-selling science book ever published at the time. It received the Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book in 1981.
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- Introduction
- The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean
- One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue
- The Harmony of Worlds
- Heaven and Hell
- Blues for a Red Planet
- Travelers' Tales
- The Backbone of Night
- Travels in Space and Time
- The Lives of the Stars
- The Edge of Forever
- The Persistence of Memory
- Encyclopaedia Galactica
- Who Speaks for Earth?
- Appendix 1: Reductio ad Absurdum and the Square Root of Two
- Appendix 2: The Five Pythagorean Solids
- For Further Reading
- Index
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